Empowering Financial Inclusion: Design Thinking for GIMO
Client

GIMO

Industry

Finance

Work

Design Thinking Learning

Background

GIMO, a pioneering financial wellness platform in Vietnam, is dedicated to providing innovative, real-time salary advances and financial tools to underserved workers. As the company expanded, GIMO identified the need to enhance its human-centered approach, ensuring its products and services resonate deeply with customers’ needs. To achieve this, GIMO sought a tailored Design Thinking learning program to empower their team with the mindsets, skillsets, and tools needed to innovate effectively—always keeping their target customers at the forefront of their thinking.

How We Helped:

Doodle Design partnered with GIMO to deliver a customized Design Thinking learning program, equipping their team with simple, practical methods to foster customer-focused innovation. Through interactive workshops, participants learned to empathize deeply with customers, uncover pain points, and co-create solutions that address high-priority challenges.

The program emphasized immediate, hands-on application, guiding GIMO’s team through creating user personas, journey mapping, problem reframing, and prototyping solutions. This immersive learning journey cultivated a culture of collaboration, creativity, and iteration, enabling GIMO to build a solid foundation for truly customer-centric innovation.

Work Outputs:

  • Design Thinking Learning & Training Sessions
  • Persona Development, Journey Mapping, & Problem Reframing
  • Ideation & Prototyping Workshops
  • Enhanced Customer-Centric Innovation Capabilities
  • Strengthened Cross-Team Collaboration
“People ignore products that ignore people. HCD is 100% about the people. Their true needs. Each and every designer at Doodle Design or IDEO.org needs to stay unbiased and see the world as how it could be, not as it is. This inclusive mindset reduces the chance for ideas to be rejected or ignored. This is how we can break the vicious cycle to widen financial access to people who are truly in need.”
Nhu Vo
Founder, Doodle Design
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